Monitoring and control of livestock housing conditions using precision livestock farming techniques

Monitoring and control of livestock housing conditions using precision livestock farming techniquesThis chapter discusses the use of precision livestock farming (PLF) techniques to monitor the housing environment in intensive livestock production systems. It discusses the effects of variables such as temperature and humidity on animal productivity, health and welfare. It also shows how environmental conditions affect production of greenhouse gases such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) as well as other damaging emissions such as ammonia

This chapter considers a range of experimental evidence concerning the precise effects of these factors on soybean reproductive development

Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production

This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is

Sugarcane is not only the main source of sucrose but also the world’s most important energy crop with an important role in the global sustainability transition

English pop music served a key role in defining

The first in a series of Yiddish polemical pamphlets appeared one week before the elections to the second National Assembly in the Republic of the Netherlands on August 1

The first book on Blier published in English

Genetic evaluation and selection for longevity are then discussed

the films of Aleksandar Petrovic dramatize how enforced dogmatism can corrode any political system

It aims to facilitate further progress by asking new questions which may help in developing mechanisms-based strategies to improve both feed and water efficiency

This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures

A new look at the debates which shook the world of French cinema in the aftermath of May 1968